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Wildfire Interactive: Ruby on Rails Developer

Wildfire Interactive is a rapidly expanding, VC-funded tech startup positioned squarely on top of the social media marketing revolution. Our platform allows brand managers and marketers of all shapes and sizes to quickly create a variety of promotional campaigns to engage and interact with the users and fans of their brands.

Intuitive, streamlined and affordable, Wildfire’s platform is simple enough for even the least tech-savvy business manager to use and flexible enough to suit the needs of the most creative marketer or advertising agency. We have tens of thousands of customers, including hundreds of major brands such as Pepsi, Disney, Nestle, American Express, Unilever and Toyota. The success of our product has been recognized not only by our growing fan base but also by a collection of established institutions. Wildfire is a 2x winner of the Facebook Fund, a TechCrunch Crunchies Award nominee, and was recently chosen for the 2010 AlwaysOn Global 250, as one of the best 250 private companies in the world.

Job Description:

We are looking for truly talented Ruby developers with a passion for clean code and great products. Our current technology stack includes Ruby on Rails & Sinatra, and we’re in the process of building a number of “pure Ruby” components. We’re also using some NoSQL solutions – at the moment, Redis and Cassandra are regular tools. This list gets longer as our problems change, so you’ll need to be excited about learning and applying new solutions.

We work with the Twitter and Facebook APIs every day, so experience with OAuth or external APIs of any kind is a major plus. We also use Git – you don’t need to be a ninja (you can learn from our resident expert) but you should be familiar with it.

We’re all “full-stack” developers, so whilst you don’t necessarily need to know the ins-and-outs of Javascript lexical scoping, you should probably know what $() does in jQuery (we also use Prototype, either is fine). The usual CSS/HTML familiarity is a given. 😉

We care about quality. Writing unit tests using modern framework like Shoulda, RSpec, or Cucumber should be second nature to you, and you should be comfortable performing and receiving code reviews.

We are working on an exciting mix of improving and scaling our highly successful existing apps, developing entirely new apps, and taking our overall architecture to the next level.

Our team is fast, smart and independent. Many of our developers are Rails Core Contributors, and we encourage Open Source contributions and community participation. It’s a fun team to work with based in a really cool office in Palo Alto, California. You can check out the team here: http://github.com/wildfireapp.

You should be willing to relocate to the Bay Area in case the needs arises, but need to be based there to start.

If you’re interested, please send us:

Your github username

A short description of something really cool you’ve worked on – code or tech-related, and preferably as your own project rather than something as part of an existing job. Perhaps a Ruby gem, or an iPhone app – surprise us!